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| Nicaragua |  Review on February 4, 2011: |
claro
Rating:  | Review Topic: IR-1/CR-1 Visa
Everything went almost exactly as previous reviews have provided regarding getting there at 7AM, going through inspection and waiting to be called up to the windows. The first person we spoke to was Nicaraguan and asked us general questions about when we were married, where we were working, when did my husband return to Nicaragua from the US, and did we have any children of our own or together. It didn't seem that they had looked at our package from NVC because he asked to look at our copy and flipped through it pausing at the photos. He told us our VISA application couldn't be completed because we needed police reports from the city where my husband is living in Nicaragua, and the two cities where he lived in the US. I told him the NVC checklist told us we didn't need them which is why we didn't have them. He said the NVC checklist is outdated. He then took my husband fingerprints and asked us to wait to be called again. The second person that called us up was American. She was very nice and asked us pretty much the same questions. She told our VISA application will be complete and approved once we return with the three police reports, but that since my husband was EWI for more than one year he would have a 10 year ban to wait out before the VISA will be issued. She encouraged us to apply for the I-601 Waiver and told us we could do it in the afternoon MWF. She said the police reports could be from the city or the state where he lived in the US. We left bummed that we couldn't finish everything because we had the I-601 waiver application in hand and ready to submit. I was leaving to return to the US a couple days later. I contacted the states and found out the state records required fingerprints and one of the cities required him to appear in person. y wanted him to either appear in person to get the report. One of the cities only required a notorized letter. We spent the entire next day trying to find somewhere to get fingerprints in Nicaragua, even going back to the Embassy to see if we could get the copy there that they took, but could not get them. I wrote a letter and we got it notorized so that took care of one city. After I returned to the states I called the other city and they said if he doesn't have a record on file they could give me a letter saying that. I found a website for one of the states that let me pay for online access saying he had no record on file. I was only missing the other state so I printed out the page that said I could only get it with fingerprints. I mailed everything to my husband and two weeks later he returned to Managua and the application was completed. I'll put the Waiver interview review under a separate topic.
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #7132